My project from this summer. My first ever veggie garden.

[Irb]

This was my first attempt at my vegetable garden. I didn't take too many pictures towards the end of the summer. Here is what I came up with. The garden is roughly 5 feet x 15 feet.

-10 Sweet 100 tomato plants
-4 Red Chilli
-4 Scotch Bonnets
-4 Harbenaros
-4 Hot Cherrys
-4 Super Chilli
-4 Hot Portugals
-2 Oriental Eggplants
-2 Strawberry bushes
-4 Oriental Basil
-4 Rosemary
-4 Garlic Chives

In June this is how everything looked.
http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b227/phuqawf/full_view_-_June_12th.jpg

A month later this is how it looked.
http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b227/phuqawf/full_view_-_July_5th.jpg

My tomato plants went a little crazy on me. I think i should have had maybe 3 or 4 tops but I had 10.
Here it was in the beginning
http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b227/phuqawf/Tomatos1.jpg

Here they are about 2 months in
http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b227/phuqawf/Tomatos2.jpg

Here are some of my eggplants
http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b227/phuqawf/Eggplants.jpg

Hot Portugals
http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b227/phuqawf/Picture018.jpg

Super Chillis
http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b227/phuqawf/Picture002.jpg

Sweet 100 Tomatos.
http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b227/phuqawf/Picture017.jpg

Peppers galore
http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b227/phuqawf/Picture013.jpg

9 inch Hot Portugal.
http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b227/phuqawf/Picture008.jpg

In the end I finished with well over 300 tomatos. I wanted to keep track of my peppers but after I hit over 200 I didn't keep track. With the peppers my dad made over 15 jars of hot sauce. Next year I'm going to be a lot more organized. I plan to expand the garden a bit. Maybe by another 50%.

[mrpurrhead]

eggplants always look great when growing. Nice garden!

[deep]

Wow very nice work. I wanted to do the same this year but was too busy....I hope to use your example as inspiration next year!

[Irb]

eggplants always look great when growing. Nice garden!
My favorite ones were my peppers. My close friend's dad has been running a garden for over 20 years. He said that never has he ever seen pepper plants as big as mine. None were shorter than 3 feet tall. Most were roughly 4.5 feet. I had several over 5 feet tall.

I'm going to grow less tomatos next year. Going to try some squash and melons.

[Rehan]

I'm going to grow less tomatos next year. Going to try some squash and melons.Make lots of room, because those can take up a lot of area!

[Irb]

Make lots of room, because those can take up a lot of area!
Yeah I know. I'm only going to have maybe 2 or 3 tomato plants next year. My parents used to grow melons and squashes before so I'm aware of how much space I'll need.

[Evil Techie]

wow nice work
those peppers are sure big!

wanna share some with me? hehehe

ur neighbours must be happy eh

what do u use to fertilize the soil?
mushroom soil?

[mrpurrhead]

Yeah I know. I'm only going to have maybe 2 or 3 tomato plants next year. My parents used to grow melons and squashes before so I'm aware of how much space I'll need.

Ok so this is kind of gross but I have a composter that I use religiously (cuz I am a waste reduction junkie) and I had this great big squash/pumpkin plant grow out of it.. it was that light beige coloured squash that you eat but in the shape of a mini pumpkin. We ATE some of them.. and used the rest as mini jack-o-lanterns.. that's the most gardening I've done... aside when I was a kid from Warminster.

[NDman]

Nice work there. I wish I had that much space in the backyard. I always had terrible yield with hot petter, and sweet pepper. Always get eaten by bugs and whatnot. Did you do anything special to prevent that?

[mart242]

A garden and a two car garage are part of my reasons to move into a new house. How big was your garden? 10' x 5' ?

[Irb]

My garden is about 5 feet x 15 feet in size.

I didn't use anything special at all which is surprising. I bascially dug up the ground and used over 50 bags of top soil and manure. I just made sure to water it every day. I only used fertilizer once and that was maybe 1 month in. I think it is was because I used all fresh new soil the garden turned out so well. I'm going to start the garden earlier next time.

I did not have any problems with pests surprisingly . Only the leaves of my eggplants were eaten up. That didn't affect the output as I still got about 7 eggplants per plant.

[fakishan]

yummy :)

thanks for reminding me, I have to plan my garden for next year.

gardening gives me great satisfaction. the best part is to go and grab whatever you want, all fresh and pesticide free (although tap water does have chemicals :| ).

[Shifty]

Thanks for taking the time to post those, very inspiring. I only did tomatoes this year, we just moved into the house a year ago, and we had our first baby arrive in May, so even getting that done was tough!

We'll be expanding next year for sure. I have my composter set up, and will be hooking up my rain barrel to the eaves, then running a trickle line to the garden to cut out watering time.

[mlc2000]

Yeah I know. I'm only going to have maybe 2 or 3 tomato plants next year. My parents used to grow melons and squashes before so I'm aware of how much space I'll need.

My sister-in-law had nice melons this summer.
In fact she still has nice melons. :cheesygri

[Keelie]

on the tomato plants, it helps to pluck off the suckers so they dont grow crazy all over the garden.

i put a big stake next to mine and grow them up the side and pluck all the suckers, keeps them in place and in shape.

i love growing different pepper plants. i have 3 raised beds and i find they really only grow well in the one, regardless of having the exact same soil and whatnot in them, two are even about a foot apart and they get the same exposure to the sun :confused: in the one garden they can grow 3-4 feet tall, people are always amazed at the size.

your garden pic's are great! thanks for sharing.

[Imagine]

the tomatoes and peppers look so ripe and delicious , think of all the money you saved .

[thrifty1]

...garden
methinks that you should be our resident gardening guru (kinda like a "holmes on homes" type of thing)
great pictures,especially this time of year (please update your thread with more pics; help us make it through this colder time of year)

keep up the good work!

[gr8dlr]

I considered creating a veggie garden as well, only never got around to it. Wanted it to be a raised bed (maybe a foot or foot and a half high above ground level) so I wouldn't have to dig out the soil create edging to keep out the grass and it's easier when your harvesting your veggies b.c. you don't have to bend over so much.

One tip though rather than buy 50 bags of soil, you could have ordered soil in bulk by the yard - it's much cheaper and they deliver it to you. Only problem is you need to get a wheelbarrow and hopefully a friend or two to put the soil where you want if it isn't truck accessible.

[Irb]

I have some more pictures but I don't have them with me right now. I'll post them in a couple of days.

I can't wait for spring time. I'm going to trump my garden from this year. I've had people tell me to enter my peppers at some local gardening contests due to the size of some of them.

[glaswegian]

I have some more pictures but I don't have them with me right now. I'll post them in a couple of days.

I can't wait for spring time. I'm going to trump my garden from this year. I've had people tell me to enter my peppers at some local gardening contests due to the size of some of them.


Still waiting for those pictures when get a minute :)

[Irb]

I'm back everyone!

Just started working on my garden again this year. I started a bit late I know :mad:

This year it's more organized. I didn't go overboard with 12 tomato plants like last year. I learned my lesson. I'm not finished planting everything yet but I should be finished with in the next couple of days. I'll be sure to post some new pictures soon.

[MkmBandit]

so what was the result like for this season? Those are some damn delicious looking pics man

[Irb]

so what was the result like for this season? Those are some damn delicious looking pics man
I didn't take many pics this year. The garden didn't turn out as well as the first year. Plants were not as big but they still produced a lot of peppers. I had about 24 hot pepper plants in all. I'll see if I have some pictures some where...

[red_red]

thanks for sharing .. as they say a picture is worth a thousand words !!

did you just buy seeds and plant them ??
any recommendations on what type/brand to buy??
everytime i go into the store to buy seeds, i get overwhelmed as to what is good to buy.

[B40]

9 inch Hot Portugal.
http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b227/phuqawf/Picture008.jpg


Do you have any of these left? Can I have some? Any bigger than 9 inches?